1965: `I Feel Fine', 10th and last week in the Top 30 (UK New Musical Express chart).

1965: At Shepperton Film Studios Brian recorded segments for the American TV show “Hullabaloo”. He introduced performances by The Searchers, Billy J. Kramer, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, Georgie Fame, Joe Brown and The Moody Blues and also conducted interviews with these acts. These segments, as well as several others apparently recorded on an earlier date, were featured in a number of different episodes during the first three months that Hullabaloo aired; January, February and March 1965.http://www.tv.com/shows/hullabaloo/episodes/

1966: Paul McCartney meets Stevie WonderPaul McCartney saw Motown star Stevie Wonder perform on this day at the Scotch Of St James club in London. The Beatles were all fans of Motown's recordings, and after the performance McCartney and Wonder chatted backstage. Many years later, in 1982, the pair released a single, Ebony And Ivory, which topped the charts in both the UK and US.http://www.beatlesbible.com/1966/02/03/paul-mccartney-meets-stevie-wonder/

In 2012 they worked together on the song “Only Our Hearts” for Paul’s CD, “Kisses on the Bottom”.

1965: Maclen (Music) Limited was incorporated, with Brian Epstein as one of its opening directors. It published Lennon/McCartney songs in the US. Maclen was a part of Northern Songs, founded in 1963, by music publisher Dick James, Brian Epstein, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, to publish songs written by Lennon and McCartney, as well as songs written by George Harrison and RingoStarr. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Songs#CITEREFCross2005

1969: Paul McCartney hires the law firm of Eastman & Eastman, Linda Eastman's father's law firm, as general legal counsel for Apple. This was Paul's response to the hiring of Allen Klein the day before and the beginning of the end for the Fab Four.http://history.absoluteelsewhere.net/February/february4.html

1970: In a publicity stunt on a London rooftop, the newly-shorn John Lennon and Yoko Ono give Michael X (self-styled black revolutionary and civil rights activist in 1960s London) a bag of their cut hair in return for a pair of Muhammad Ali's boxing trunks. The British press ignore the latest Lennon escapades, a sign that they have grown weary of the couple’s constant quest for media attention. One thing does not go ignored however: John’s ragged physical appearance, fueling speculation that he was using heroin.

1962: Lunchtime: Cavern ClubNight: Kingsway ClubAlthough he wouldn't perform his first official show as a Beatle until 18 August 1962, on this day Ringo Starr performed with the group for possibly the first time. His normal group, the Hurricanes, had a rare day off, and Pete Best was unwell. Ringo stood in for The Beatles firstly during their lunchtime show at the Cavern Club, and again in the evening for their performance at the Kingsway Club in Southport. Beatles Bible

1965: Baroness Erisso approaches Brian about the possibility of his signing her daughter, Marianne Faithfull, to NEMS Enterprises.

“In February 1965 her mother approached Brian Epstein and asked him to manage Marianne, but he told her he would not manage another female singer as long as he had Cilla Black.”Information originally found at sixtiescity.com

1968: Ringo Starr rehearses for Cilla Black's television showThis was the final day of rehearsals, and took place at the BBC's Television Theatre on Shepherd's Bush Green in west London. Unlike the previous week's, these rehearsals took place on camera. Beatles Bible

1961: Performance at Latham Hall in Seaforth, Liverpool.This was the third appearance in a week.

1962: After receiving the news that Decca had turned down The Beatles for a recording contract, Brian Epstein met with Decca’s Dick Rowe and Sidney Arthur Beecher-Stevens, to try and persuade them to reverse their decision.http://www.richieunterberger.com/decca.html

1963: Concert at the Granada, Bedford: Day 3 of the Helen Shapiro tour

1964: Tickets for The Beatles upcoming performance on the Ed Sullivan Show sell out.

“For weeks, celebrities were calling in to get tickets for their kids. Walter Cronkite and Jack Paar scored seats for their girls; composer Leonard Bernstein tried but failed; while Richard Nixon’s 15-year old daughter, Julie, became one of the lucky few to get a seat. Even Sullivan himself had trouble getting extra tickets. On his show the week before The Beatles’ debut, Ed asked his audience, ‘Coincidentally, if anyone has a ticket for The Beatles on our show next Sunday, could I please borrow it? We need it very badly.’ ”http://www.edsullivan.com/artists/the-beatles/

Looks like Walter’s daughter didn’t even use her ticket!“Collectibles from this show are extremely rare. The extent of items that could be found from this show is limited to tickets and ticket rejection notices. Only one unused ticket is known from this show, and it was formerly the property of Walter Cronkite's daughter. There was no poster made to advertise the show. Fakes have been seen on Internet auction sites.”http://www.rarebeatles.com/photopg7/sull2964.htm

1970: UK single release: `Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)'/`Who Has Seen The Wind'. It ranks as one of the fastest-released songs in pop music history, recorded at London's Abbey Road Studios the same day it was written, and arriving in stores only ten days later. Lennon remarked to the press, he "wrote it for breakfast, recorded it for lunch, and we're putting it out for dinner."[1] The record was produced by Phil Spector, the first of many recordings by the Beatles that Spector worked on that year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_Karma!

1964: `New Musical Express' reveals that Brian turned down an £8000 offer for the Beatles to play a concert at the Madison Square Garden. It speculates that the Beatles talked Brian out of a `big deal' with Bernard Delfont. It also states that one can `discount rumours linking Alma Cogan's name romantically with Brian Epstein'.

1961: Performance at Aintree Institute in Aintree, Liverpool and then at Hambleton Hall in Huyton, Liverpool.

1962: Epstein visited a HMV store in Oxford Street, London, to have the Decca audition tape transferred to disc. A HMV technician named Jim Foy liked the recordings, and suggested that Epstein should contact Parlophone's George Martin. The Beatles were signed by EMI's small Parlophone label after the group had been rejected by almost every other British record company, and without Martin ever having seen them play live. Martin later explained that Epstein's enthusiasm and conviction that one day The Beatles would become internationally famous convinced him to sign them.http://www.the-beatles-history.com/brian-epstein.html

1963: Concert at the ABC, Carlisle (Helen Shapiro tour). The Beatles are ejected from a ballroom for wearing leather jackets.

1965: Once announced in 1965 as the Beatles third movie, “A Talent For Loving” would have been the Beatles experiment in the genre of the Western film. Richard Condon, the writer of “The Manchurian Candidate”, was the author of the novel “A Talent For Loving”. The script was based on a true-life horse race in the 1870’s in which the prize was a wealthy girl! The Beatles would play pioneers in the old West who had tralleled from Liverpool, so the accent problem was bypassed. The Beatles fascination with the cowboy west was evident when you see the group decked out in cowboy attire in various photo shoots from 1964-65 (and on the back of their RUBBER SOUL album). And Ringo Starr (in his pre-Beatle days) once wrote to the Houston Texas chamber of commerce about possible immigration. Although the rights to film were acquired, they finally rejected the film and “A Talent For Loving” was released by someone else in 1969. Rejected Film Projects by the Beatles, from Ear Candy.com

1969: John Lennon: Two Virgins enters the ranking, number 158 (Billboard).

1972: Paul and Linda McCartney, the band (Wings), wives, girlfriends, children, and even pets, climb into a caravan and head onto the motorway, stopping at whichever university town takes their fancy. Their musical instruments, along with two roadies, follow in a van. Once there, Paul will send in an assistant to ask if they can put on a show for the students the following day. Once agreed, word is spread throughout the campus and posters are put up. This happens today at Nottingham University. The road manager for this tour, Trevor Jones, remembers the historic first concert: “We went into Nottingham University Students Union at about five o’clock and fixed it up for lunchtime the next day. Nottingham was the best because they were so enthusiastic. No hassles. No one quite expected it or believed it.” Absolute Elsewhere.net

“Candace Cushing’s reaction to The Beatles’ first appearance on ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’ …..is immortalized in a newspaper photograph subsequently used in a special edition of Life magazine. Cushing, now a college counselor at King & Low-Heywood Thomas School in Stamford, said, ‘I just fell right into the hysteria.’ ” http://boomersint.com/memory/beatlemania.htm

1982: George Harrison presented UNICEF with a check for $9 million, 10 years after the fund-raising concert for Bangladesh. He is presented with the UNICEF award by Hugh Downes, the chairman of the US committee for UNICEF. George makes this statement at a press conference: “It’s nice to know you can achieve these sort of things. Even though the concert was over 10 years ago and the public has probably forgotten about the problems of Bangladesh, the children still probably need help and the money will have significant impact.” http://history.absoluteelsewhere.net/February/february9.html

1961: Performance at Aintree Institute in Aintree, Liverpool and then at Lathom Hall in Seaforth, Liverpool.

1963: The Helen Shapiro tour continued this evening at the Embassy Cinema in Peterborough, with Peter Jay and the Jaywalkers taking over The Beatles' spot for one night. The lads spent the day traveling to London in anticipation of a long day of recording for their first LP at EMI Abbey Road on 11 February.

“It’s February, 1964 and WIBG jocks Hyski & Joe Niagara are knocking back complimentary beverages at a swanky “Meet the Beatles” cocktail party at the Plaza in New York . Hyski staggers out of the cocktail party with one thing on his mind: getting the Beatles to Philadelphia. The next day, Lit calls William Morris, the Beatles booking agency, and asks what it will take. “Twenty-five thousand dollars,” they say. Hy doesn’t even blink. He’ll be there tomorrow with a certified check. The Beatles will be on his doorstep on September 2nd.”http://hylitradio.com/productlogo/yo6.htm

1968: The Beatles close Beatles U.S.A. Ltd., their American fan club and business office, and fire their US press agents, severing all American business connections. They also withdraw from the late Brian Epstein's NEMS Enterprises and turn all business affairs over to their newly formed record company, Apple.

“One of the great stories surrounding this legendary date in Beatles history is that John and Paul were both suffering from severe colds, and had to rely upon tea, milk, 'a big glass jar of Zubes throat sweets on top of the piano, rather like the ones you see in a sweet shop.' Paradoxically, by the side of that, was a big carton of Peter Stuyvesant cigarettes which they smoked incessantly.”http://comprehensivebeatles.blogspot.com/2010/12/1963-february-11-recording-details.html

1964: The Beatles arrival in Washington DC (This is a silent newsreel but it has great footage. You might want to mute your sound because it does have an annoying buzz.)

1970: John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band ( Yoko, Klaus Voorman, Alan White and Mal Evans) recorded two live performances of “Instant Karma” for the BBC’s “Top of the Pops”. One version was aired the following night and the other on February 19th. Earlier, on February 5th, the program featured the song along with a silent 16mm film of John and Yoko. (ML)

1962: The Beatles auditioned for Peter Pilbeam, BBC producer of teen radio programs. The audition consisted of four songs: Paul singing his composition “Like Dreamers Do” and “Till There Was You” and John singing “Memphis, Tennesee” and his own song “Hello Little Girl”. John was given a “yes” in Pilbeam’s notes and Paul a “no” but they still all ended up being booked for “Teenager’s Turn” on March 7th. Mark Lewisohn, The Complete Beatles Chronicle and Kevin Howlett, The Beatles at the Beeb

1963: Concerts at the Azena Ballroom, Sheffield?? and Astoria Ballroom, Oldham LancashireThis concert (Azena Ballroom) was initially thought to have taken place on 12 February 1963; however, later evidence suggests it was, in fact, 2 April of that year. Additionally, a poster featuring The Beatles' 'drop-T' logo, and the 12 February date, is known to be a fake. BeatlesBible.com

1966: John Lennon and Ringo Starr paid a visit to the Scotch of St James nightclub on this evening. The Scotch, as it was known, was located at 13 Masons Yard, off Duke Street in London. The Beatles had their own table at the club, which was fitted with a brass plate bearing their name. Earlier in February 1966, Paul McCartney had met Stevie Wonder at the Scotch following a performance. BeatlesBible.com

Guitarist Bill Price clearly remembers this taking place on February 16th but I can find no mention of The Beatles being at the Lounge that night. Anyway, the whole thing was pretty traumatic for him so it's no wonder he forgot the date!Toledo band turned down chance to open for Beatles

1969: John Eastman (Paul’s soon-to-be father-in-law) wrote to Clive Epstein (Brian Epstein’s brother), who was now running NEMS after his brother's death: "As you know, Mr. Allen Klein is doing an audit of The Beatles affairs vis-a-vis NEMS and Nemperor Holdings Ltd. When this has been completed I suggest we meet to discuss the results of Mr. Klein's audit as well as the propriety of the negotiations surrounding the nine-year agreement between EMI, The Beatles and NEMS." http://www.mccartney2.chat.ru/books/diary/m13_1969.html

1972: Richard Kleindienst, deputy to US Attorney General John Mitchell, sent a note to Naturalization and Immigration Service (INS) Commissioner Raymond Farrell, asking when John was coming to the US and if his admittance to the country could be denied. John was already here in the US.Come together: John Lennon in his time By Jon Wiener

1961: Performance at Aintree Institute in Aintree, Liverpool with Derry and the Seniors and Jean Day and the Jango Beats and then at Hambleton Hall in Huyton, Liverpool with Rory Storm and the Hurricanes (with Ringo) and Faron and the Tempest Tornadoes.

1963: The New Musical Express prints The Beatles’ “lifelines.” John Lennon lists his personal ambition as “to write a musical”; his professional ambition as “to be rich and famous”; his likes as “blondes, leather”; and his dislikes as “stupid people.”http://history.absoluteelsewhere.net/February/february15.html

1975: Capitol Records rushed the release John's LP `Rock And Roll' and sued Morris Levy to force him to withdraw the LP `Roots', which has already sold 3000 copies, from the market. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Levy

During a break in recording, The Beatles collected various awards from EMI, presented by Sir Joseph Lockwood. Among them was the Carl Alan Award, given to the "Best Group Of 1964". The group were also given a set of traditional Japanese dolls, gifts from the Japanese arm of the EMI empire. http://www.mccartney2.chat.ru/books/diary/m09_1965.html